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Programatically add options to “add new” custom field dropdown

How can I add pre-defined options to the "add new" custom field dropdown? Here's two examples of automatically adding and showing new custom fields: WordPress: Adding Default Custom Fields on New ...
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How to tell if string is null or empty in meta value? [closed]

I am trying to figure out how to find out if a string is null or empty in php. The place I am pulling the value from is a meta value that is stored from a meta box on the post page. I want to check ...
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How can I create a menu items from meta box based on users input

I have created a metabox that takes a name that the user can give as an additional name of their post. I am wondering how I can automatically create a menu item based on the name the user input into ...
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Trying to retrieve post meta

I have created a meta box that allows users to add an additional name/id to their post. From what I can tell it is adding the meta information correctly because when I edit a post that has a custom ...
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Get post meta retrieving wrong value

I created a custom meta box with a textbox where the user can enter a custom value in as an additional identification tag. I thought I had it right but when I try to retrieve the value it is giving me ...
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Perform function on publish AND save (not just save)

I am using this function to auto-set a post title based on a couple of custom fields: function set_event_title( $data , $postarr ) { if($data['post_type'] == 'event') { $getdate = ...
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Saving multiple Metabox contents

I'm putting together a fairly simple Custom Page for a friend on their WordPress site, but I'm having some real difficulties getting the contents of the Metaboxes to save correctly. WordPress doesn't ...
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Custom Metabox Not Saving

I've simplified a problem of saving custom metaboxes on update and still can't get the box to save the custom-field input to the database. This is the call from functions.php to an external file ...
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Custom metabox not working

Morning! I have a call in my functions.php file to include a custom meta-box php file in my theme's directory called: /metaboxes/home-meta.php The code is as follows for the call: add_action( ...
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can you set a default value to a custom field

I'm looking to set a default value to a specific custom field, in case the client doesn't add into the custom field it already has a specific number associated with it. one step deeper, I'd like it ...
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How can i call from custom fields to the category editor?

I found this code for custom field add category editor. I added custom field to the Category. e.g. My field name is Hastag and i have a Sport category. And i want to call display Sport's custom ...
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Display a custom field rating system in the front end

I have added a content rating system to my platform where the authors can select which audience their post is appropriate for. Currently, these options are available: Unrated G PG ...
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170 views

WP doesn't show Array Custom Fields?

I'm wondering why WordPress doesn't list PHP array() and any serialized data in Custom Fields in Admin Panel (for Pages, Posts etc.)? Only Custom Fields containing strings and numbers show up and can ...
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Hide custom fields when empty

I am trying to create a function to add data from two custom fields after the entry title. I get it to show correctly when these fields are filled in. The fields are a image source url and an url the ...
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Getting the ID of any image for use in functions.php

I've added two custom fields to attachments on my site, so the user can add a special image credit. I'm trying to write a function that looks to see if either of the custom fields are populated, and ...
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Specific coditional usage [closed]

I have some trouble making work a conditional inside a Function. check this out: I'm using this function: function get_spec_1(){ $desc1 = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'eco_mb_tp_1', true!= "" ); ...
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Add custom fields after post/page title

I am using the Headway theme, and I need to add custom field code to page & posttitles. This is what I need to be able to do. The red button will be added through a custom field. It needs to be ...
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394 views

How to add a predefined custom field without using a plugin?

I´m trying to find a snippet to add a predefined custom field. Does anyone know how or where i can find this? I know I can do this with CustomPress, but I´m trying to do this without a plugin.
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How to automatically create a custom field when a post is published?

I'm trying to add custom fields on post publish with this code which I added to my functions.php : add_action('publish_page', 'add_custom_field_automatically'); add_action('publish_post'. ...
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Adding class to last list item? Not WP generated

this one has been getting me for a while. At the moment I have a repeater field with Advanced Custom Fields: <ul id="servicelist" class="clearfix"> <?php if(get_field('homepage_service')): ...
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Allow authors to create article image

I want to allow contributors to upload images while creating posts. But the catch is, I am building the post display pages out of my own custom PHP. Every article written will follow the same ...
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Automatically assign a custom post to a custom taxonomy based on custom field value

We have a custom post type called listings, and each listing has a custom field zipcode (which is a 5 digit number). We then have a custom taxonomy area, which can be "New York", "Los Angeles" etc. ...
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Meta boxes not displayed, data isn't being saved

As the title says, I have a problem in functions.php (I assume it's in there) which causes custom fields to not be displayed on the new/edit post page, and when I add the meta box myself and save the ...
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clients list using wordpress

I am using wordpress for my new website and i have list of clients(name and their logos). I am confused how to make those editable using wordpress? Html as follows... <ul> <li><img ...
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Wordpress metaboxes - textfield suggestion automatically populated

[Long story short] Is there any Wordpress plugin/function that would allow the creation/integration of a metabox's textfield that automatically populates a dropdown menu (in the admin area, while in ...
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804 views

Does Wordpress have a “Form API”

I do most of my development in Drupal, however I am working on a Wordpress site and I need to make a form. Which got me thinking, is there a Form API for wordpress like there is Drupal? Is there a way ...
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How to disable Edit Post and Allow only Custom Field?

What I would like to know is if it is possible to disable the edit post function in wordpress based on User's roles. I try to explain better. Let's take an 'Editor' as role example: I would like ...
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Stripping and/or altering the content of a custom field (video URL)

I’m making a theme where some posts have an associated video, from either Vimeo or YouTube. At the moment, users can add this to a post by adding a video ID into one of two custom fields, called ...
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Search everything (posts, pages, tags, cpt, meta)

I would like to know how to use the built in wordpress search to return results from all content on my site. Specifically, I want to search; posts pages tags custom post type (portfolio) custom ...
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151 views

Auto-remove custom field with no value on publish

I got some plugins that auto-generates custom fields. Does anyone know how to automatically remove empty custom fields from post when I press "publish"? A check I can put in my functions.php that ...
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grab or load text on demand

What i want to do I want some content (could be stored any where in a post or custom field) to load only when the user clicks for it to load. This content could be any thing (text,images,html etc) ...
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Calling Custom Field within Function wrapped with Divs.

Hi all I've created a function that basically allows the user to input the embed code for youtube into a custom field called youtube and this will then be styled on a wordpress post. Now I can get it ...
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Save modified Custom Field content into another Custom Field on article save [closed]

In my articles I allow editors to enter a date in a human readable dd.mm.yyyy format into a custom field. But I also need this date as unix timestamp in the DB. So I wrote a function which takes the ...
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Get fields from metabox array

In my functions I'm registering multiple metaboxes with custom fields. A single metabox array for instance, looks like this: In functions.php $meta_boxes[] = array( 'id' => 'general_info', ...
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813 views

Add meta data to the menu

I encountered this problem what i thought to be one of the worlds simpliest things, I wanted to add a subtitle to the menu somethin alike this http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7816/unled10b.png . Then i ...
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484 views

Including inline Custom Fields info with add_filter in functions.php

I have a function set up to place some standard text in each post for a Custom Post Type. However, within that standard text I want to pull some unique text from a few custom fields. Not sure what is ...
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Populate Custom Field Dropdown on Theme Install?

Is there a way to populate the custom field dropdown box when you install a theme? I want to make it easier for users and avoid having them add the terms manually when they first set it up.
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Odd functions.php issue in Wordpress

I'm using More Fields plugin, and when I use my functions.php to embed the custom field, I get an odd issue. The field value is followed by a "1" I use this code: //Address add_action( ...
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Auto-add paragraphs to custom field?

hey guys, is it possible to format text in a custom field input box automatically with paragraphs? e.g. like the normal text-widget that has the option to say "auto-add paragraphs" when there is a ...
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299 views

Display custom field values from posts on frontpage

How can I pull a custom field with meta_key "proprty_feature" (and has a value) for all posts and display them on my frontpage? Would like to display the post name as a link above the value..
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post meta data clearing on autosave

For starters I am using this GREAT answer to achieve custom post types as well as a custom way to insert those post types into other pages, you can view that answer here: Custom field/meta populated ...
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Add new “Insert Into Post” button with another function

Problem: Add a hook that automatically adds a short tag to video attachments when inserted from the Media Library (video) tab: Update: This works under the 'Media Library' tab — and doesn't break ...